String Search

Chapter 4 - Strings and Associative Arrays/stringSearch.js

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+// String.search(val) - search string for the given val (another string). Return the index position of the first match found(or -1 if not found).
+
+String.prototype.search = function(val){
+    var str = this.toString();
+    var strArr = str.split("");
+    var temp;
+    var count = 0;
+    for (var x = 0; x < strArr.length; x++){
+        if(strArr[x] == val[count]){
+            count++;
+        }
+        if(strArr[x] == val[0]){
+            console.log(x);
+            temp = x;
+        }
+        if(count == val.length){
+            return temp;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+console.log("My trip to Antartica".search("trip"));